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No. 68,549. Patented sept. 3, 1867.

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JOSEPH BENSON, SAMUEL BENSON, AND WILLIAM BENSON, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIN.

Letters Pat-ent No. 68,549, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GULTIYATORS.

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'TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN: y

Be it known that we, Josnru BENSON, WILLIAM Benson, and SAMUEL BENSON, of Lebanon, Lebanon county,

State'of Pennsylvania, have 'invented :new and useful Improvements in Sulky-Oultivators, the same being adapted also to he used as a shovel-barrow, and especially as a machine for marking on' land into rows and squares for planting; and wcdo hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference hein,r had to the drawings that accompany and form a part of these specifications, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective, prepared for use as shovel barrow.

Figure 2, plan view looking upon the'hottom ofthe machine.

Figure 3, sectional elevation with central shovel removed.

Figure 4, view with three shovels removed.

Letters A A, two front teeth or shovels; letters B B, the two rear and Outside shovels; letter O, the central shovel; letter D, lever by which the shovels are raised; letter e, chains connecting,r with lever D; letters g g,

small blocks on the bolts z' i; these interchange places with the supporting barf ofthe two outer shovels; letters 7i h, two small wheels suspended from the vtwo ends of the bar J; these are iliade adjustable, and serve as guides when 4the machine is used as a corn-marker; letters ZZ, tlium b-sercws, which, in connection with the slides m m, afford the means of adjusting the guides t h; lctterf, cross-bar, arranged just in front of thc wheels,-`or supporting the guides h h; letter o, short cross-bar, to which the supporting chains of the-two front shovels are attached. f

The object of my invention is to provide a machine simple in structure, and one that may be adapted toverious kinds of work, and without multiplying parts.

In iig. 1 the machine is fitted for the Ordinary working 'of the soil, and for harrowing-in grain sown broadcast. When used as a c ultivator of crops growing in rows, the central shovel is removed, :is-appears in lig. 3,`and of the four remaining shovels, two pass each sido of a row of whatever is being cultivated, the axle being carried vsufiiciently high to pass over corn when two or three feet in height. Should this machine be'desired for marl;-

ing O` land for planting, thatis, to indicate the rows and crossings, the three central shovels are removed, the two cuter ones only being used, as in iig. 4. A set of larger shovels, as indicated by the red lines, may ne used in the place of these two when a deeper and wider .furrow is required. To graduate the distance between thc rows the blocks g y are brought into requisition. Of these there are two on cach ofthe bolts t', and they may exchange places with the shovelbarf,-or one or both of them may be placed upon the outside of the support s, as represented by the section in red immediately below tig. 2. The guides h 7L should be so arranged that the distance from each to-thc shovel nearest it will be just the distance desired betweenthe rows, so that in each' successive timefof passing'to and fro across the field one of these guide-wheels, 7th, may beA kept` directly above a furrow already made, and thus secure a uniformity in space between the rows throughout the field.

What wevclaim as of our invention, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, is- 1. The use of the blocks g y, more or loss in number, and the blocks z e, more Or less in number, arranged upon the rods t', and so combined with the standards j as to allow the arrangement of' either standards or blocks on either side ofthe bars s s when desired, and for the purposes specified.

2. We claim the guides 7i L when arranged, combined, and used substantially in the manner described, and

for the purposes set forth.,

JOSEPH BENSON,

SAMUEL BENSON, Witnesses: WILLIAM BENSON.

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